There is also an early evening performance next Monday in the new foyer at the Colston Hall. From 6.05pm for 30 minutes the choir will sing ‘Keep you in peace’, ‘Gitika’, ‘Shoshone love song’, ‘For the beauty of the earth’, ‘Hallelujah’ (Leonard Cohen, not Handel), ‘Lean on me’, ‘Make you feel my love’, ‘We shall overcome’ and ‘It don’t mean a thing’.

Then they will make a swift return to school for the usual Monday rehearsal – starting at 7.20pm.